A Question about Selling Documents from Your Blog

I have a question for readers who have experience with e-commerce. What is the simplest way to set up the ability to sell a document/file from a blog?…

For example if I were to have a file (pdf) that I wanted to sell to the readers of a blog for a smallish fee – how would the cheapest and most hassle free way be? I don’t want to have to set up a completely new site – or register as a credit card merchant. I do have a paypal account. I am willing to pay a service a small percentage of the income for a service that automates it.

Initially it would just be one type of document for sale – but down the track there could be others.

I’ve had limited experience with esellerate which I could use – but I’m wondering what other options there may be for a low level operation like this.

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Darren Rowse is the founder of ProBlogger.net, a blog about the many ways of adding an income stream to blogs.

Darren owns and writes a variety of blogs including Digital Photography Blog and Camera Phone
Zone. He is also a co-founder of the Breaking News Blog Collective.